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Voldemortlucky Posted 13 years ago
Grammar
The use of plural/singular noun
Greetings everyone,
Thank you so much for having a look at my question,
Basically, I have always wondering about the following situation:
Say I want to talk about something that many people own, will I use plural or singular for that "something"?
For example: Say in my classroom every student has one yellow, so which one of the following sentence is grammatically correct?
Sentence 1: Pencils of every students here are yellow
Sentence 2: The pencil of every students here is yellow
Because my logic is that since everyone has a pencil then there must be a lot of pencil I'm talking about, thus it must be in plural (Sentence 1). I hope my question made sense and I'm really thankful for your help!
Thank you so much for having a look at my question,
Basically, I have always wondering about the following situation:
Say I want to talk about something that many people own, will I use plural or singular for that "something"?
For example: Say in my classroom every student has one yellow, so which one of the following sentence is grammatically correct?
Sentence 1: Pencils of every students here are yellow
Sentence 2: The pencil of every students here is yellow
Because my logic is that since everyone has a pencil then there must be a lot of pencil I'm talking about, thus it must be in plural (Sentence 1). I hope my question made sense and I'm really thankful for your help!
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- So please do not completely rely on my post.
- voldemortlucky Say in my classroom every student has one yellow, so which one of the following sentence is grammatically correct?
- Then it's wrong to say "Pencils of every student".
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Welcome to EnglishForward.
Disclaimer : I am a student. So please do not completely rely on my post.
Disclaimer : I am a student. So please do not completely rely on my post.
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Thank you very much, so I can only use "Pencils of every student" when all the students have at least 2 pencils each?
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voldemortluckyso I can only use "Pencils of every student" when all the students have at least 2 pencils each?Yes.
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voldemortluckySentence 1: Pencils of every students here are yellowSentence 2: The pencil of every students here is yellowevery goes with a singular. every student, not every students. This is the correct form:
The pencil of every student here is yellow.
But more idiomatically we would say Every student here
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Hi CJ, thank you much for your reply, but could you please explain the difference in the meaning of these two sentences:
1/ every students here has yellow pencils
2/ every students here has yellow pencil
Do they mean the same thing? Or is there an implied meaning?
1/ every students here has yellow pencils
2/ every students here has yellow pencil
Do they mean the same thing? Or is there an implied meaning?
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voldemortlucky1/ every students here has yellow pencils2/ every students here has yellow pencilYou are still writing 'every students', which I have just told you is wrong. If you don't correct your errors on the basis of the information you have already been given, maybe you don't understand what was written. So in that case it seems a waste o
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Oops I'm sorry I was just being careless, please excuse my mistake and help me with my question :-(
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voldemortluckyOops I'm sorry I was just being careless, please excuse my mistake and help me with my questionHello, voldemortlucky—and welcome to English Forums. Please re-post your revised question after carefully checking your English to the best of your ability.
Thank you.
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